comparison DOCS/xml/en/encoding-guide.xml @ 16541:4a9808f6cacc

add some internal links between "codecs supported by mencoder" and "codecs featured by lavc". Added an audio encoding example. Moved the "codecs featured by lavc" in 2 shiny new sections (to allow the internal links to work)

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<para>
<link linkend="ffmpeg"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>
provides simple encoding to a lot of interesting video and audio formats.
You can encode to the following codecs (more or less up to date):

<informaltable frame="all">
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row><entry>Video codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
</thead>

</tgroup>
</informaltable>

The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
<literal>vcodec</literal> config, like: <option>-lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4</option>


<informaltable frame="all">
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row><entry>Audio codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
</thead>

The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
<literal>acodec</literal> option, like: <option>-lavcopts acodec=ac3</option>
</para>

<para>
  Contrary to <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s video
  codecs, its audio codecs do not make a wise usage of the bits they are
  given as they lack some minimal psychoacoustic model (if at all)
  which most other codec implementations feature.
  However, note that all these audio codecs are very fast and work
  out-of-the-box everywhere <application>MEncoder</application> has been
  compiled with <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> (which
  is the case most of time), and do not depend on external libraries.
</para>

<informalexample>
<para>
An example, with MJPEG compression:
<screen>mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -oac copy</screen>
</para>
</informalexample>

<sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-lavc-encoding-options">
<title>Encoding options of libavcodec</title>

<para>

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<para>
<link linkend="ffmpeg"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>
provides simple encoding to a lot of interesting video and audio formats.
You can encode to the following codecs (more or less up to date):
</para>

<sect2 id="menc-feat-enc-libavcodec-video-codecs">
<title><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s video codecs</title>

<para>
<informaltable frame="all">
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row><entry>Video codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
</thead>

</tgroup>
</informaltable>

The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
<literal>vcodec</literal> config, like: <option>-lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4</option>
</para>
<informalexample>
<para>
An example, with MJPEG compression:
<screen>mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -oac copy</screen>
</para>
</informalexample>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="menc-feat-enc-libavcodec-audio-codecs">
<title><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s audio codecs</title>
<para>
<informaltable frame="all">
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row><entry>Audio codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
</thead>

The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
<literal>acodec</literal> option, like: <option>-lavcopts acodec=ac3</option>
</para>

<informalexample>
<para>
An example, with AC3 compression:
<screen>mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=ac3 -ovc copy</screen>
</para>
</informalexample>

<para>
  Contrary to <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s video
  codecs, its audio codecs do not make a wise usage of the bits they are
  given as they lack some minimal psychoacoustic model (if at all)
  which most other codec implementations feature.
  However, note that all these audio codecs are very fast and work
  out-of-the-box everywhere <application>MEncoder</application> has been
  compiled with <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> (which
  is the case most of time), and do not depend on external libraries.
</para>
</sect2>


<sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-lavc-encoding-options">
<title>Encoding options of libavcodec</title>

<para>